The eleven great cities lay in the plains. No matter how high the mountains rose, they could not surpass the mountain behind the City Lord's Manor, and even the mountains and rivers farther away, along with their ant lairs, had long since been hollowed out. So, without even mentioning looking down from the air, one could see all the way to the final Beast Ward Wall or Hunting Beast Tower even from the ground.
Now that I looked down from the air, the ferocious beasts around us seemed to have vanished. Even the smallest scavengers had disappeared without a trace. After several beast tides, they had either hidden in their old lairs or fled to places rarely visited by humans. Coupled with the growing number of hunters and the rampant slaughter, the fate of the local ecosystem was already clear.
Once resources began to dwindle and the demand for blood-drinking increased, war would soon arrive.
After landing outside the city, the hunters naturally erupted in cheers when they saw our four-person team descending on three flying mounts. Once we entered the city, many familiar faces also came to welcome us one after another.
"Husband! You're finally back!" Jiu Fang Tao waved at me from a distance. Seeing her already dressed in a Master-grade military uniform adapted to local customs, with a baffling badge hanging from it, I couldn't help smiling. "Why did you come down here?"
It wasn't just Jiu Fang Tao who came to greet me. Her disciples and a group of companions had come down as well. The most eye-catching among them was Zhao Yu. Even he had brought a group of generals running over, and he was looking at me with a wicked grin.
"I heard there was going to be a war here, so I volunteered